José Ortega y Gasset

The Dehumanization of Art

Analysis of modernism and modern art's abstraction from lived experience

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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset

Spanish philosopher and essayist whose The Revolt of the Masses diagnosed the dangers of mass society and cultural leveling. His perspectivism argued that each point of view captures a partial truth. He founded the influential Revista de Occidente and introduced contemporary European philosophy to Spain.

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